Download or read book Using Computer Science in Military Service written by Xina M. Uhl and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computers play an integral role in the military's primary goal, defending the nation and its interests, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Opportunities for computer science coding careers abound in weapons design, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, sophisticated drones, and the ever-evolving, and ever-important field of cyber warfare. This compelling, extensive book provides solid career guidance specific to the military's organization. It offers ideas for employment with civilian organizations that serve the armed forces' technology needs. It is perfect for readers who are considering both full-time and part-time service, whether for an entire career or limited tours of duty.
Download or read book The Closed World written by Paul N. Edwards and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology--and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories--the history of American global power, the history of computing machines, and the history of subjectivity in science and culture--through the lens of the American political imagination. In the process, it reveals intimate links between the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Edwards begins by describing the emergence of a "closed-world discourse" of global surveillance and control through high-technology military power. The Cold War political goal of "containment" led to the SAGE continental air defense system, Rand Corporation studies of nuclear strategy, and the advanced technologies of the Vietnam War. These and other centralized, computerized military command and control projects--for containing world-scale conflicts--helped closed-world discourse dominate Cold War political decisions. Their apotheosis was the Reagan-era plan for a " Star Wars" space-based ballistic missile defense. Edwards then shows how these military projects helped computers become axial metaphors in psychological theory. Analyzing the Macy Conferences on cybernetics, the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, and the early history of artificial intelligence, he describes the formation of a "cyborg discourse." By constructing both human minds and artificial intelligences as information machines, cyborg discourse assisted in integrating people into the hyper-complex technological systems of the closed world. Finally, Edwards explores the cyborg as political identity in science fiction--from the disembodied, panoptic AI of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the mechanical robots of Star Wars and the engineered biological androids of Blade Runner--where Information Age culture and subjectivity were both reflected and constructed. Inside Technology series
Download or read book When Computers Went to Sea written by David L. Boslaugh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-04-16 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Computers Went to Sea explores the history of the United States Navy's secret development of code-breaking computers and their adaptation to solve a critical fleet radar data handling problem in the Navy's first seaborne digital computer system - that went to sea in 1962. This is the only book written on the United States Navy's initial application of shipboard digital computers to naval warfare. Considered one of the most successful projects ever undertaken by the US Navy, the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) was the subject of numerous studies attempting to pinpoint the reason for the systems inordinate success in the face of seemingly impossible technical challenges and stiff resistance from some in the military. The system's success precipitated a digital revolution in naval warfare systems. Dave Boslaugh details the innovations developed by the NTDS project managers including: project management techniques, modular digital hardware for ship systems, top-down modular computer programming techniques, innovative computer program documentation, and other novel real-time computer system concepts. Automated military systems users and developers, real-time process control systems designers, automated system project managers, and digital technology history students will find this account of a United States military organization's initial foray into computerization interesting and thought provoking.
Download or read book Changing the Atmosphere written by Clark A. Miller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating historical, sociological, and philosophical approaches, Changing the Atmosphere presents detailed empirical studies of climate science and its uptake into public policy.
Download or read book Military Computers and Software written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computerization of United States Army as an Inspiration of Modern Warfare written by Jakub Debowski and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: A, University Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie (English Philology), course: History and Culture of English Speaking Countries, language: English, abstract: This paper presents a detailed analysis of subjectively chosen aspects of computerization of the United States Army, in the context of conducting modern warfare operations with the emphasis on military computer simulations. It is of great difficulty to analyze every element of such a broad, and at some points multi-layered and complex subject. Nevertheless, it is vital to indicate and establish boundaries of the areas of the subject that will be the target of this theoretical study, which mainly concentrates on the origins and development of the first military computer, Virtual Reality computer training simulations, and chosen aspects of the use of computers with emphasis on their indispensability on the modern battlefield. The aim of this paper is to prove that the invention of multiple technologically advanced computer devices, and their incorporation into the United States Army, redefined the form of conducting complex military operations, and considerably improved the training, and educational process of American soldiers, by creating innovative methods based on state of the art computer technology.
Download or read book The Next World War written by James Adams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-03-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a silent, invisible, and deadly weapons system. It can paralyze an entire nation without a single soldier being sent to war. We glimpsed its potential on television when surgical strikes on radar sites, electrical power plants, and command networks crippled Iraqi forces during the Gulf War. Now, in The Next World War, James Adams shows how a new chapter in military history is being written as the Information Age comes to the battlefield: to bigger and stronger, now add smarter. As increasingly sophisticated computers and microtechnology have become available, the concept of "conventional" warfare has changed. Technology has already made its way to the front lines: soldiers are now equipped, for example, with new "smart" technologies such as handheld computers that allow them to e-mail their commanders. There are devices that can sense an enemy's presence before the enemy is visible, by detecting body heat or by communication with satellites overhead. Robotic "bugs" can even be sent in swarms to sabotage weapons or subdue enemy soldiers. But the most significant and important use of information warfare won't be on the battlefield. The most devastating weapons will be those that target an enemy's infrastructure -- air-control systems, electrical grids, and communication networks, to name just a few potential targets. "Trojan horse" chips or viruses designed to accept and respond to commands from U.S. military intelligence can be installed in computers being sold overseas, making them vulnerable to attack. By hacking into computer systems, the United States could override programmed commands and thus shut down air traffic control systems, and open floodgates and bridges. Misinformation could even be broadcast, for example, by using imaging technology to simulate a television appearance by an enemy nation's leaders. This type of combat puts civilians at more risk than ever, as financial, communication, transportation, and other infrastructure systems become prime military targets. And information warfare puts the United States -- a nation increasingly dependent on technology -- in a position of both definite advantage and extreme vulnerability. In The Next World War, James Adams draws on impressive research as well as his lifetime of reporting on intelligence and military affairs to give us a chilling scenario of how wars will be fought in the new millennium -- and how much closer to home they might strike.
Download or read book Creating the Computer written by Kenneth Flamm and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the technological developments that led to the development of computers, discusses the influence of the military and IBM, and surveys current competition
Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Military Applications of New Generation Computing Technologies written by United States. Defense Science Board. Task Force on Military Applications of New-Generation Computing Technologies and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Department of Defense s Standardization Program for Military Computers A More Unified Effort Is Needed written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense's Standardization Program for Military Computers--A More Unified Effort Is Needed
Download or read book Computers in Military Training written by Gene Terry Sherron and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field visits were made to twenty military installations throughout the United States--nine Army, two Air Force, one Marine Corps, four Navy, and four Department of Defense. Through computer and education and training conferences in Washington, D.C. and New York, personal contacts were made with personnel from four additional installations. Hearing of the research project, they asked to have their activity included in the research by on-the-spot-interviews. This extension of the design allowed all twenty-four of the military installations which have an active computer program to be represented in this paper. The following five chapters contain narrative-tape descriptions of each service's instructional computer use.
Download or read book Evaluation of Man computer Input Techniques for Military Information Systems written by Michael H. Strub and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication describes the evaluation, in terms of speed and accuracy, of four configurations of procedures for inputting information into a semi-automated information processing system. Sixty USMA Prep School enlisted men were given an experimental task requiring each to translate 35 free-text messages into computer-acceptable terminology. Accuracy and speed of two input procedures were each compared under two conditions of verification. In one procedure, the subjects translated the incoming message onto a paper format before transcribing on a CRT screen (off-line). In the other procedure, the message was transcribed directly on the CRT screen (on-line). In the unverified condition, one man performed the input operation without error check; in the verified condition, two men translated the same message, compared their translations, and resolved differences before entering the information into the data base. Performance results under the four experimental conditions were also compared with a similar 7th Army TOS procedure in which a message is translated onto a paper format and the unverified message is copied on the CRT screen by the UIOD (user input-output device) operator.
Download or read book Military Computers written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: ENIAC, UNIVAC 1101, Ship gun fire-control system, Torpedo Data Computer, Rangekeeper, Norden bombsight, HACS, Aegis Combat System, Arthur Pollen, Frederic Charles Dreyer, DATAR, Coincidence rangefinder, MOBIDIC, Kerrison Predictor, Dumaresq, Ferranti Argus, AN/FSQ-32, Director, MIL-STD-1750A, AN/FSQ-7, Gun data computer, AN/FSQ-31V, TRADIC, Mark I Fire Control Computer, Vickers range clock, Gyro Rate Unit, Barr and Stroud, UNIVAC 1103, Pom-Pom Director, Naval Tactical Data System, Tachymetric anti-aircraft fire control system, Battenberg Course Indicator, Operations room, Admiralty Fire Control Table, Advanced combat direction system, Command and Control Microcomputer Users Group, AN/USQ-17, Mark 8, Fire Control Computer, Fuze Keeping Clock, IBM AP-101, AN/UYK-7, Central Air Data Computer, AN/USQ-20, ATHENA computer, SSDS, AN/UYK-20, UNIVAC 1102, AN/UYK-8, Enhanced Tactical Computer, AN/UYK-43, MARQUISE, MANDRIL, UNIVAC 1104, AN/UYK-44, Project Genoa, RH1750.
Download or read book Computer Based Instruction in Military Environments written by Robert J. Seidel and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Computers written by James Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human computer Systems in the Military Context written by Thomas Nash and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
